Nov 20- Bill Gross just got a huge vote of confidence from legendary investor George Soros. Soros Fund Management LLC, which Soros chairs, has invested $500 million in an account run by Gross at Janus Capital Group Inc, the Denver- based firm said on its website on Thursday. Soros Fund Management approached Gross after he resigned from Pimco in late September, a...

JOHANNESBURG/ DUBAI, Nov 19- Bharti Airtel's planned disposal of mobile phone towers in Africa will see it sell masts in Tanzania to Helios Towers, while units in Malawi will go to Eaton Towers, a person with knowledge of the deal said on Wednesday. The Tanzania sale will include about 1,000 towers, said the source, who declined to be identified because the deal has...

NEW YORK/ LONDON, Nov 17- Gold retreated from a two-week high hit earlier on Monday as the dollar rose on news that Japan had slipped into recession, and strong technical resistance could also further limit bullion's gains in the near term, analysts said. "The next technical hurdle for gold will be its 50- day moving average, which has been acting as its stubborn...

*Gold holds gains after 2 percent rise on Friday. LONDON, Nov 17- Gold held near a two-week high on Monday as global shares fell after data showed Japan had slipped into recession, raising concerns about global growth, but strength in the dollar kept the metal's gains in check. Spot gold was down 0.1 percent at $1,188.00 an ounce by 1049 GMT after peaking at $1,193.95,...

*Gold scales 2- week high but fails to hold it. SINGAPORE, Nov 17- Gold retreated after hitting a two-week high on Monday, tracking moves in the dollar, but the metal managed to hold most of the previous session's short-covering gains. "A lot of new shorts were put into gold after we broke below $1,180 and as we came back through it, there was some short-covering," said a...

SINGAPORE, Nov 17- Gold came under pressure early on Monday as the dollar jumped to a seven-year high against the yen, but the metal managed to hold most of the previous session's short-covering gains. *Spot gold had eased 0.2 percent to $1,185.14 an ounce by 0032 GMT, after jumping 2.3 percent on Friday, when it also hit a two-week high of $1,193.34.

NEW YORK, Nov 14- Hedge fund Paulson& Co maintained its stake in the world's biggest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, SPDR Gold Trust, in the third quarter, bolstering the confidence of bullion investors at a time when an improving U.S. economic outlook pummeled gold prices. Legendary investor George Soros, however, has sharply cut his stake in Barrick Gold Corp...

BOSTON, Nov 14- Soros Fund Management, one of the world's most widely followed investment firms, slashed its stake in Herbalife Ltd. by 60 percent during the third quarter, a period when Herbalife missed Wall Street earnings estimates and its stock price tumbled. Herbalife has become one of America's most closely watched companies since billionaire investor...

NEW YORK, Nov 14- Hedge fund Paulson& Co maintained its stake in the world's biggest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, SPDR Gold Trust, for a fourth consecutive quarter in the third quarter, when bullion prices fell on an improving U.S. economic outlook. New York- based Paulson& Co, led by longtime gold bull John Paulson, owned around 10.2 million shares of the ETF...

NEW YORK, Nov 14- Hedge funds scooped up shares of China's Alibaba Group Holding in the third quarter, making the e-commerce giant one of the most commonly bought stocks among some of the biggest U.S. investors, according to regulatory filings on Friday. Among the institutional investors that took new stakes in Alibaba were Soros Fund Management, the hedge fund...

*FCC reaches deal with creditor banks to refinance debt. MADRID, Nov 14- U.S. billionaire George Soros will become a key investor in Spanish building and services company FCC following a 1 billion euro rights issue aimed at paying down debt, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Friday. FCC shares rose 7.5 percent on the news.

LONDON, Nov 14- The best way to think about the dramatic slide in oil prices over the last five months, Brent has fallen by more than 30 percent, is that the market is caught in a negative bubble. In 2014, no one is prepared to forecast a return to the recent highs above $100 per barrel. The process by which bubbles form, expand and eventually burst has been chronicled by...

*FCC reaches deal with creditor banks to refinance debt. MADRID, Nov 14- U.S. billionaire George Soros will become a key shareholder in Spanish building and services company FCC following a 1 billion euro rights issue aimed at paying down debt, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Friday. FCC shares rose 8.4 percent on the news.